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Hyperallergic
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The first Afro-Brazilian woman to earn a PhD in visual arts in Brazil, Paulino sees the colonial past as an active force in her country’s present, visible above all in the violence, archival and literal, against Black people, especially women.

hyperallergic.comRosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It“This history is dirty,” says the Brazilian artist, who sees the colonial past as an active force in her country’s present.

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Fieldhouse New York
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Rosana Paulino's seed-pod forms are perfect for her project: the archive as something planted by violence that still germinates today. She sews, draws and prints over history's documents until they tell the truth they were made to hide. Essential work.